Ariel
@Ariel
397 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Ariel upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Gregoria
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over 4 years ago
Lucence raises $20 million Series A for its non-invasive cancer screening technology
Lucence raises $20 million Series A for its non-invasive cancer screening technology – TechCrunchLucence Diagnostics, a genomic medicine startup that develops non-invasive tests for cancer screening, announced today that it has raised a $20 million Series A led by IHH Hea...continued
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Ariel upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Casper
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over 4 years ago
Why do billions of people still not have glasses?
Why do billions of people still not have glasses?Making spacecraft is not a job in which you can afford to be slapdash.At Lockheed Martin, for example, it used to take a technician two painstaking days to measure 309 locations for certain fasteners on a particular curved ...continued
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Ariel
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over 4 years ago
How The Country's Goofiest Baseball Team Made Millions
How The Country's Goofiest Baseball Team Made MillionsThe Savannah Bananas' Jesse Cole turned an unloved team into the hottest ticket in town. Now he has a lesson for every CEO who wants to turn a company around: Stop doing what people hate.Baseball is a game of tradition...continued
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Ariel
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over 4 years ago
Get a grip: How Mahomes, Brady, Lamar and 10 other QBs fling the football
It's the most subtle but important connection in sports: a quarterback's grip on the football. Critical but somehow often unnoticed, it can be the difference between offensive supremacy and pick-sixes galore. NFL quarterbacks all hold it a little differently -- the laces ...continued
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Ariel upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
George
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over 4 years ago
SoftBank and Line Corp. Seek to Create a Japanese Internet Giant
SoftBank and Line Corp. Seek to Create a Japanese Internet GiantTOKYO — Two weeks ago, SoftBank Group of Japan announced it had lost billions on soured investments in some of the world’s biggest tech start-ups. On Monday, it said it was ready to roll the dice again.The co...continued
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Torey
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over 4 years ago
Google is scaling back its weekly all-hands meetings after leaks, Sundar Pichai tells staff
Google is scaling back its weekly all-hands meetings after leaks, CEO tells staffGoogle’s weekly town halls, internally known as “TGIF” meetings, have been emblematic of the company’s professed belief in a transparent corporate culture, giving employees a chance to talk w...continued
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Alvah
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over 4 years ago
Africa: more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad
Africa can list more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad – TechCrunchAt the recent TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Senegalese VC investor Marieme Diop suggested that Silicon Valley’s unicorn IPO model might not be right for African startups.The is largely because the contine...continued
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Elliott
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over 4 years ago
Instagram Business Accounts and My Friend, the Grocery Store
The Allure—and Agony—of Instagram Business AccountsInstagram began testing hiding public like counts globally on Thursday, after experimenting with the design tweak in several individual markets abroad. People who upload photos and videos will still know how many people l...continued
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Ariel
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over 4 years ago
AI-generated fake content could unleash a virtual arms race
AI-generated fake content could unleash a virtual arms raceWhen it comes to AI’s role in making online content, Kristin Tynski, VP of digital marketing firm Fractl, sees an opportunity to boost creativity. But a recent experiment in AI-generated content left her a bit sha...continued
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Geovany
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over 4 years ago
How to Use Behavioral Data to Inform Marketing Decisions
How to Use Behavioral Data to Inform Marketing DecisionsIf someone you’ve never met before, hands you their phone, and asks you to detect as much as possible about them simply from the contents of their phone, could you do it? Chances are, you’d be able to tell quite a lo...continued
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Jany
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over 4 years ago
Helping veteran entrepreneurs develop business skills
Helping veterans develop business skills as entrepreneursNEW YORK - Every year, about 250,000 U.S. military members leave the service and enter the workforce, and one in five tries to start their own business.While the military focuses on leadership development, entrepren...continued
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Marjory
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over 4 years ago
A company that sold encrypted phones was run by crime lords
A company that sold encrypted phones was run by crime lordsYou’ve probably heard the idiom of the fox guarding the hen house — but how about the one of the encrypted phone company run by drug lords?Okay, that’s obviously not an idiom, but it’s a true story chronicled by V...continued
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Joe
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over 4 years ago
The reigning queen of American reality TV
The reigning queen of American reality TVThe BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to entrepreneur and reality TV star Lisa Vanderpump.Lisa Vanderpump says she has appeared in more reality TV programmes ...continued
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Zetta
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over 4 years ago
MIT uses shadows to help autonomous vehicles see around corners
MIT uses shadows to help autonomous vehicles see around corners – TechCrunchWe’re still not at the point where autonomous vehicle systems can best human drivers in all scenarios, but the hope is that eventually, technology being incorporated into self-driving cars will be...continued
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Rex
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over 4 years ago
Disney is investing big in streaming. Here's why
Disney is investing big in streaming. Here's whyDisney+ has arrived to try and reshape the streaming landscape. CNN Business' Frank Pallotta explains how and what it all could mean for Disney's other businesses.Source: CNNPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:The Walt Disney Com...continued
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Ariel upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Ariel
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over 4 years ago
Why Multicultural Marketing Needs Machine Learning and Facial Tracking
Why Multicultural Marketing Needs Machine Learning and Facial TrackingMarketers in 2019 will find it hard to be successful without understanding the cultural transformation that’s happening in this country. Between 2012 and 2017, the US multicultural population – Hispanic...continued
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Ariel upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Colin
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over 4 years ago
Max Q: International Astronautical Congress 2019 recap edition
International Astronautical Congress 2019 recap edition – TechCrunchOur weekly round-up of what’s going on in space technology is back, and it’s a big one (and a day late) because last week was the annual International Astronautical Congress. I was on the ground in Washin...continued
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Pablo
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over 4 years ago
Where are US fintech’s next billion-dollar startups?
Where are US fintech’s next billion-dollar startups? – TechCrunchAs fintech investments soar to new heights, investors are looking at the bottom and top levels of the services stack to find the next billion-dollar startups.That’s the word from seasoned investors like Andr...continued
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Ariel
@Ariel -
over 4 years ago
Why Multicultural Marketing Needs Machine Learning and Facial Tracking
Why Multicultural Marketing Needs Machine Learning and Facial TrackingMarketers in 2019 will find it hard to be successful without understanding the cultural transformation that’s happening in this country. Between 2012 and 2017, the US multicultural population – Hispanic...continued
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Ariel upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Garnet
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over 4 years ago
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on Crypto, China, and Fixing the Web
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on Crypto, China, and Fixing the WebPatrick Collison, cofounder of online payment system Stripe, thinks that even with its wide-ranging and well-documented problems, the internet is still amazing.“The key question—why aren’t things getting bett...continued
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Ariel
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over 4 years ago
Apple TV+ vs Netflix: Pricing, content, apps, and more
Apple TV+ vs Netflix: Pricing, content, apps, and moreApple launched its Apple TV+ service on November 1st, 2019, taking on established juggernaut Netflix at a game it practically invented (not to mention the half-dozen or so other streaming services). So comparing Apple ...continued
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Ariel upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Wilmer
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over 4 years ago
Volvo to roll out a new electric vehicle every year through 2025
Volvo to roll out a new electric vehicle every year through 2025 – TechCrunchVolvo Cars used the unveiling of the XC40 Recharge, its first electric vehicle, to lay out an ambitious business strategy that includes introducing a new EV every year through 2025 and slashing b...continued
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Minnie
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over 4 years ago
What to Say When a Job Interviewer Asks For a Long-Term Commitment
What to Say When a Job Interviewer Asks For a Long-Term CommitmentDuring a typical job interview, you can usually expect to answer familiar questions like “What are your strengths?” or “Why exactly do you want to work here?” Occasionally, you might also field not-so-legal...continued
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Ariel upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Josiah
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over 4 years ago
Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying for Saudi Arabia
Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying for Saudi ArabiaSAN FRANCISCO — Ali Alzabarah was an engineer who rose through the ranks at Twitter to a job that gave him access to personal information and account data of the social media service’s millions of users.Ahmad Ab...continued
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Ariel upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Hannah
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over 4 years ago
I followed my father's advice and became a billionaire
I followed my father's advice and became a billionaireSerial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia and his brother have made more than a billion dollars selling technology companies they built from scratch in India.Bhavin Turakhia puts his success down to a core message that his f...continued
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